DUNEDIN FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14196, 7 June 1916, Page 2

DUNEDIN FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Bray Bros. (Dunedin)^ Ltd., r report ?s follows for the Aveefi ended 'J.une 3rd:—- , ..-• ' Wheat: "The market -shows-no-altern-ation from last week. Oats:, The position is firmer than it has been for some time past, and there is a faninquiry from the North. . Chaff: The market is steady and supplies plentiful. Potatoes: The market, has jumped to £6 108, and good lines are firm at quotations. There is an upward tendency. Eggs: There has bedn a glut on tiie local market, and supplies have been'sold as low as Is lOd per dozen. £!uch •'.. sales, however, were due to panic, the proper market value being 2s" 4d for stamped first grade. Fruit: Business during the week has been brisk., and all good lines are firm at quotations. The following prices were realised during the week;— Wheat: Velvet 5s per bushel, Tuscan 4s 6d,.. best fowl 4s 2d. '. . ! Oats: A Gartons 25,. 3d per bushel, B Gartons 2s 2d, A Sparrowbills 2s 2d;, A Gortons 2s 7-J-d, f.0.b., s.i., A Spjjrrowbills 2s 6£d, f.q.b., s.i.

Chaff: Prime oaten sheaf £3 12s to £3 15s per ton. \ Hay:' Pt-iai|e'iclover :£8 ";per .ton. Straw: Wheaten.^,2; per'ton. . ..' Potatoes: Prime table £8 10s J?er ton. ..'.'.'

Onions: Canterbury £ 810s per ton'; Melbourne £7 10s. Bran: £4 10s per ton.

Pollard £7 10s per ton. .; Turnips £2 per ton, s.e. Maize ss. i' Bacon: Rolls Is to. Is Id'per lb. Cheese: Mediums 9d per. lb, loaf 9£d : . Eggs: The following prices are guaranteed, up till June 10th—Stamped tirst grade 2s 3d per dozen, pullets Is lOd, preserved Is 6sd. - Butter: Creamery bulk Is 4-3 d lb, pats Is sd, separator Is 3d; milled Is 3d. . - .

Pumpkins 4s per cwt. Marrows 5s 6d to 7s 8d ?er sack Pie. melonvS 6s 6d per cw't.

Apples: Dessert—Jonathan, Esopus. Spitzenberg and Scarlet Pearmain 2-^-d to 3d per lb, Cleopatras 2^d, cookers l? f d to 2d.

Pears: Dessert—Winter Nelis and Josephine 2d to 2id per lb; cookers Jd. Tomatoes: A few local are comrric forward, and are Realising up to lUd ppr lb. - - ' ■ ". ;

Gropes: Loeall* 9d to 2s per lb Quince* I>l to 2d per lb. Oranges: Short supply, 18s. per casp;' """'.. Lemons: ATMnidc 17s 6cl per case American 32s 6d. '

Pfcsmuts 3d, per lb. Walnuts lid per lb. C-ibbrtges up to 8s per sa r-k Cnuliflowers: Large heads ,'7.sj to 8s oc. jier dozen. ' "* '

Brussels sprouts 4-J-d rmr -lb. Carrots 4.« 6d ncr cental Garlic 2-kl per lb. Hens 8s (3d per-nair, cockerels 4s 6d to os 6(1 per pair, ducks 4s to 4s 9d rft t0 8^ Per-lb, gobblers 'j-iO. to IOJd live weight.